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The Practical Builder; or Workman's General Assistant Shewing the most approved...Methods for Drawing and Working the whole or separate Part of any Building...The Fourth Edition; Revised and Corrected by the Author
William Pain
1789
Rudiments of Ancient Architecture...The Second Edition, much enlarged
I. & J. Taylor
1794
Designs for Shop-Fronts and Door-Cases
Edward Lumley
early 19th century
Outlines of Designs for Shop Fronts and Door Cases...
I. & J. Taylor
1792
Sketches for Country Houses, Villas, and Rural Dwellings; Calculated for Persons of Moderate Income, and for Comfortable Retirement
John Plaw
1800
Designs for Chimney-Pieces with Mouldings & Bases at Large
I. & J. Taylor
ca. 1794
Decorations for Parks and Gardens. . .with Plans and Scales [bound with: Designs in Architecture, Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, 1797 and Wright: Grotesque Architecture, or Rural Amusement, 1802]
Sir John Soane
[1790], 1797, 1802
Ideas for Rustic Furniture proper for Garden Seats, Summer Houses, Hermitages, Cottages, etc
William Wrighte
ca. 1790–95
The Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository; Or, a New System of Lines and Proportions for Doors, Windows, Chimnies..& A Great Variety of Stair-Cases, on a Plan Entirely New..A New Edition
William Pain
1787
The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide; Or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture
A. Hepplewhite & Co.
1897 [copy of 1794 original]
The Builder's Jewel: Or, The Youth's Instructor, And Workman's Rembrancer. Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made familiar to the meanest Capacity, For Drawing and Working.
Batty Langley
1787
Designs for Monuments Including Grave Stones, Compartments, Wall Pieces and Tombs on 40 plates
I. & J. Taylor
ca. 1790
Rural Architecture; or, Designs from the Simple Cottage to the Decorated Villa...
John Plaw
1796
The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide, or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture, in the newest and most approved taste : displaying a great variety of patterns for chairs, stools ... in the plainest and most enriched styles : with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press : also the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... from drawings
A. Hepplewhite & Co.
1788
The Country Gentleman's Architect, in a Great Variety of New Designs
John Miller
1787
Examples of Ornamental Sculpture in Architecture. Drawn from the Originals of Bronze Marble and Terra Cot[a] in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy.
Lewis Vulliamy
1818–21
A Catalogue of Modern Books on Architecture, Theoretical, Practical and Ornamental...on Sale at I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library..
William Pain
ca. 1792
The Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository. or , a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies...etc.
William Pain
1778
The Principles of Drawing Ornaments made easy, by Proper Examples of Leaves for Moulding, Capitals, Scrolls, Husks, Foliage &c.
John Bengo
1780
Taylor's General Book of Reference for Chairs, Sofas, Couches, Easy Chairs, &c., Containing Upwards of 72 Practical Designs, Adapted to the Present Style of Furniture
G. Taylor
ca. 1836
Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings Executed in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, etc.
Sir John Soane
1788
Rural Architecture; or Designs, from the Simple Cottage to the Decorated Villa...
John Plaw
1804
Ideas for Rustic Furniture Proper for Garden Seats...
William Wrighte
1790 (?)
Ornaments Displayed on a Full-Size for Working...
I. & J. Taylor
late 18th or early 19th century
The Practical Builder; or Workman's General Assistant; Showing the most Approved and Early Methods for Drawing and Working the Whole and Separate Part of any Building...A new edition, revised and corrected by the author...
William Pain
1778
Designs for sideboards, cabinet tables, etc.
I. & J. Taylor
1822
Sketches in Architecture, Containing Plans and Elevations of Cottages, Villas, and Other Useful Buildings, with Characteristic Scenery
Sir John Soane
1798
The Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository; Or, a New System of Lines and Proportions for Doors, Windows, ...& A Great Variety of Stair-Cases, On a Plan Entirely New...
William Pain
1792
The Builder's Complete Assistant; or, a Library of Arts and Sciences...
Batty Langley
1738 (?)
Convenient and Ornamental Architecture, Consisting of Original Designs for Plans, Elevations, and Sections: Beginning with the Farm House and Ascending to the Most Grand and Magnificent Villa. . .A New Edition
John Crunden
1791
Ferme Ornée; or Rural Improvements
John Plaw
1795
Designs in Architecture; Constisting of Plans, Elevations, And Sections, for Temples, Baths, Cassines, Pavilions...&c., &c.
Sir John Soane
1778
Designs for Monuments Including Grave Stones, Compartments, Wall Pieces and Tombs on 40 plates
I. & J. Taylor
ca. 1790
The Builder's Complete Assistant; or, a Library of Arts and Sciences...
Batty Langley
1738 (?)
Ornamental Iron Work, or Designs in the Present Taste, for Fan-Lights, Stair-case-railing, Window-guard-irons, Lamp-irons, Palisades & Gates
I. & J. Taylor
before 1786
Designs for Monuments including Grave Stones, Compartments, Wall Pieces and Tombs on 40 plates
I. & J. Taylor
after 1786
Pain's British Palladio; or, the builder's general assistant..A new edition, corrected
William Pain
1797